What I built
A dual-track cinematic timeline placing The Night Manager’s fictional story beats alongside the real geopolitical events le Carré mapped into the novel. Left column: history. Right column: the novel. Characters laid out in a dossier format. Scroll-triggered animations with Intersection Observer. A fedora-wearing spy silhouette that traverses the hero section and sneaks between the giant letterforms of the title — appearing and disappearing behind the letters as it crosses the screen. Toggle to light mode and the lights come on. The spy disappears.
Why I built it
I came to le Carré through Tim Weiner and the real history of espionage — and what struck me about The Night Manager was how precisely it’s anchored to real events: the Gulf War, the Cold War’s end, the Soviet arms surplus, the government indifference. The novel sits directly on top of that history. I wanted to see the fictional and historical tracks side by side, in a format that felt like something that lives on an encrypted server. This is a reading companion and a humble homage.